You are not a free consciousness that got trapped in a body. You are consciousness that chose embodiment — for reasons so profound that the ordinary mind cannot fully grasp them.
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What Jainism Says About Consciousness and Awareness
If there is one religion in the world that has thought about consciousness with the most precision and seriousness — it is Jainism.
While other traditions discuss consciousness in spiritual or poetic terms, Jainism built an entire scientific and philosophical system around it — thousands of years ago.
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Liberation is the end or Fresh start?
Liberation is known as the freedom, Moksha and with many names in different philosophies. But the goal is one freedom from what we are now, freedom from pain, sufferings. This is the goal that we all are working for knowingly or unknowingly. What we do everyday the goal is happiness and what we do in our whole life, the goal is the same happiness.
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